The Life and Work of Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757): The Queen of Pastel is the first extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera. It is also the first scholarly investigation of the external and internal factors that helped to create this female painter's unique career in eighteenth-century Europe. It documents the difficulties, complications, and consequences that arose then -- and can also arise today -- when a woman decides to become an independent artist. This book contributes a new, in-depth analysis of the interplay between society's expectations, generally accepted codices for gendered behaviour, and one single female painter's astute strategies for achieving success, as well as autonomy in her professional life as a famed artist. Some of the questions that the author raises are: How did Carriera manage to build up her career? How did she run her business and organize her own workshop? What kind of artist was Carriera? Finally, what do her self-portraits reveal in terms of self-enactment and possibly autobiographical turning points?
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Plates
- Introduction
- 1. Rosalba Carriera – An Independent Single Artist in Eighteenth-Century Venice
- Carriera’s Early Years
- Influential Friends
- The Beginning of a Career: Carriera, an Exceptional Venetian Miniature Painter
- Carriera’s Membership in the Accademia di San Luca in Rome
- A New Reading of Carriera’s World en miniature
- Carriera’s Portrait of Philip Wharton (1698–1731)
- Carriera’s Daring Eroticism
- The Young Girl as a Gardener in Munich
- Miniature Mythologies
- Carriera and the Sister Arts
- Carriera’s Lady Putting Flowers in her Hair
- Carriera’s Clients of Erotic Art
- 2. Carriera’s Discovery of Pastel Painting
- A Short History of Pastel Painting
- Successful Ambassador of a Neglected Technique
- Carriera in the Art World of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Venice
- 3. Carriera’s International Network
- Attacked by the British
- Carriera and the French
- German Travellers on the Grand Tour
- The Italianate Climate in Düsseldorf
- The House of Wittelsbach
- The Importance of ‘Owning a Carriera’
- 4. Carriera’s Stay in Paris
- Carriera’s Admittance into the Accadémie de Peinture et de Sculpture
- 5. Carriera’s Oeuvre in Pastel
- Carriera’s Portraits within the Venetian Tradition
- From Unifying Formula to Character Studies
- The Importance of ‘Being a Carriera’
- Carriera’s ‘Galleries of Beauty’
- Character Studies and Erotica
- Carriera’s Favourite Pupil, Felicita Sartori
- Carriera’s Young Lady with a Parrot
- Portrait or Allegory?
- Mythological Subjects
- The Reception of Carriera’s Erotic Pastels
- Carriera’s Religious Works for Dresden
- 6. The Single Woman, the Spinster
- And further on Malamani remarks:
- 7. Carriera’s Last Journeys – The End of an
E`nviable Career
- Carriera in Modena
- Carriera in Vienna
- The End of an Enviable Career
- 8. Carriera’s Ways of Self-Fashioning
- Carriera’s House on the Grand Canal, a Fashionable Space of Self-Representation
- Self-Fashioning through Self-Portraits
- Carriera’s Earliest Self-Portrait
- Carriera’s Self-Portrait in the Uffizi
- Carriera’s Self-Portrait as Winter in Dresden, 1730–31
- Carriera’s Self-Portrait in Old Age in Windsor Castle, c.1744
- Carriera’s Self-Portrait in the Accademia in Venice, c.1746
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Back Cover
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